Distinguished Mobile Engineer
About the role
As a Distinguished Mobile Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
- Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
- Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
- Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
- Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
- Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
- Define and drive the technical vision for Capital One’s web platform domain, spanning authenticated servicing, marketing/acquisition, and design system capabilities
- Lead architectural decisions for large-scale platform integrations and migrations, ensuring long-term platform health while meeting delivery commitments
- Establish AI-native development standards and practices for web platforms, including agentic tooling, machine-consumable architecture, and AI-assisted delivery workflows
- Drive measurable improvement in developer experience and platform NPS across enterprise inner source contributors
- Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business priorities across lines of business
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in general software engineering and solution architecture
- At least 7 years of experience Enterprise architecture and design patterns
- At least 7 years of experience Enterprise Software specializations mobile technology and frameworks (iOS, Android)
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in Mobile technology and frameworks (iOS, Android)
- 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
- 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
- 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
- 8+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)
- Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.
Pay
Salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
- Mclean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer
- New York, NY: $293,600 - $335,100 for Distinguished Engineer
- San Francisco, CA: $293,600 - $335,100 for Distinguished Engineer
Schedule
This role is full-time.